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Israel/Palestine

elleng

(130,974 posts) Fri Jan 16, 2015, 03:14 AM Jan 2015

Being a Jewish Woman in Palestine- Answers to 3 FAQs

(by Katya)

I’ve been back from Palestine for two weeks, and I’ve gotten a lot of questions and comments about my experiences there. I really appreciate people asking questions and wanting to learn about what reality looks like, but some of the questions conveyed a lot of persisting stereotypes, racism, Islamaphobia and misconceptions. For that reason, I’d like to answer those questions here. They are:

https://arielgoldblog.wordpress.com/2015/01/14/being-a-jewish-woman-in-palestine-answers-to-3-faqs/

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Being a Jewish Woman in Palestine- Answers to 3 FAQs (Original Post) elleng Jan 2015 OP

K&R TexasProgresive Jan 2015 #1

Birthers? Fumesucker Jan 2015 #2

Well of course she was treated decently. When anti-Zio BDS'ers go into the territories.... shira Jan 2015 #3

Oh, poor you. R. Daneel Olivaw Jan 2015 #4

TexasProgresive

(12,157 posts)

1. K&R

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 08:48 AM

Jan 2015

Thanks for posting that elleng. The whole article is quite illuminating. Not all people of any stripe are haters.

Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)

2. Birthers?

Reply to TexasProgresive (Reply #1)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 10:32 AM

Jan 2015

shira

(30,109 posts)

3. Well of course she was treated decently. When anti-Zio BDS'ers go into the territories....

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 12:43 PM

Jan 2015

....they're considered friends of the Palestinian cause.

I'm sure she also ran into just as many Palestinians who hate Abbas' brutish dictatorial rule as Palestinians who were sincerely nice to her.

Of course she would never write about that.

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)

4. Oh, poor you.

Reply to shira (Reply #3)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 01:58 PM

Jan 2015

Please stop with the stereotypes.

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